Word: parks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distinctly hurrying mood was the crowd which began gathering outside St. Joseph's jail and court house that evening. When some rivermen appeared to take command of the mob, it surged into the court house, through the sheriff's living quarters, destroying everything before it. Governor Park ordered out the local militia tank company. Tankmen were lifted bodily out of their iron nests. After a four-hour siege, Sheriff Otto Theisen emerged from his smoky barricade...
...must have just come from the tropics, reasoned Chief Medical Examiner Charles Norris, and casually noted that the derelict had been a narcotic addict. Another Bowery bum died of malaria, and another, and another. Dr. Norris called his assistants together, ordered: "There's a carrier loose down around Park Row. Watch...
...liberal side on economic questions, is familiar with (and discourses ably on) a wide range of modern economic thought. Last week accompanied by Mrs. Bailie (a professional landscape architect, daughter of Lawyer Henderson) their three children and French poodle, Jasper, he arranged to move from his duplex apartment on Park Avenue to a house in Washington. ("Now," said Mr. Bailie, "Jasper will have a back yard to play in.") He also tackled the ticklish job of refinancing $727.000.000 of Government securities that fall due in December-a job made difficult by what Mr. Morgenthau had done to devalue the dollar...
...resentment took shape as a mob. Asked if he would call out the militia, florid Governor James Rolph Jr. snorted: "What! Call out the troops to protect those two guys?" By nightfall some 6,000 infuriated Californians were swarming around the jail and on the lawn of a park across the street. When they rushed the jail's iron doors with two great pieces of iron pipe, tear gas was as useless as cigar smoke. The sheriff was carried off unconscious. The mob found Holmes on the second floor. He put up a hard fight for life. Thurmond...
Investigators of the American Association of University Professors last week reported on President Hamilton Holt's summary dismissal of Professor John Andrew Rice and others from Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla. (TIME, June 19, July 10, Sept. 4). President Holt was found to have made himself autocrat of Rollins. ("When you want to fire a cook, you don't go out and get a committee of neighbors to tell you what to do, do you?") Professor Rice, no ''yes-man," had vexed President Holt and other Floridans by behaving much as satiric, cacographic Dean Swift...